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cgrhm, It is too bad that references were not give for this, since it contradicts written descriptions in usually reliable sources. I could find not reference to India, and the designing artist's project for Egypt (to mark the Suez canal) was quite separate from that of the Statue of Liberty. The artist wanted to mark just our centennial, but also the ending of slavery in the US. (We all agree that the horrors of that institution did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation, but that does not detract from the artist's stated objective.) The project was extremely expensive, and it was an international effort to get it built, including assistance from Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel tower) to provide the inner structure, and various industrialists to provide cash. Calling the workers "slaves" is useless hyperbole. Underpaid immigrants and minorities, certainly, but I find it useless to judge a communal effort over a century ago by current standards. We do not have to reject the efforts of the past in order to mend our ways currently.